Legitreviews.com , looks at the new Corsair Nautilus 500 water cooling external setup and compares it to their own Corsair Hydrocool 200EX

Although the Corsair Nautilus500 is Corsair's most recent external water cooler it is not their first. The original HydroCool 200 was designed back in 2002 and launched on March 20, 2003. That means the HydroCool 200 was built for use on the now dated Intel P4 and AMD K7 series of processors. The original HydroCool was designed to provide up to 200 Watts of cooling for these processors, which is still enough to cool today's fastest processors, but not an entire system. The Nautilus 500 is rated at 500W, which is more than double the previous model and more than enough to water cool an entire computer system including the processor, chipset, and video card/s if one buys the extra water blocks.

I was seriously thinking about getting one of these but I don't think I will now.

I'll just get a 3x120mm fan rad and a pump, to use with the Storm I've had sitting around for months.

What I am thinking of doing is mounting this all in a seperate enclosure and finding some similar quick release / no drip connectors, so I can still detach the whole lot from my box like the HydroCool.

I'll also have a fan bus for the fans and a digital meter for water temp and flow.

It doesn't have to be pretty just work and this should be better than the Nautilus for cooling.